Henry Howgate was not himself an arctic explorer, but as an influential bureaucrat, he profoundly affected American arctic expeditions in the late 19th century. He was partly responsible for one of ...

Swedish drilling vessel, Vidar Viking, led the Arctic Coring Expedition, when scientists set out to retrieve subseafloor sediment records to support their investigations into climate change. Click ...

Nations—and their militaries—are scrambling to control long-frozen resources and new shipping routes. Canadian soldiers climb on the wreckage of a plane, roughly a thousand miles south of the North ...

For the first time in recorded history researchers have not observed sea ice formation along the Siberian Coast of the Arctic Sea this late into the year. The region, according to researchers, usually ...

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The Arctic today is a hostile place for most primates. But a series of fossils found since the 1970s suggest that wasn’t always the case. Dozens of fossilized teeth and jaw bones unearthed in northern ...

S ome places on Earth are so much more than locations on a map. The very north and south of the globe are two such places; ...

Greenland sled dogs, known asQimmeq in Greenlandic, have long played a vital role in the Arctic, assisting Inuit people in the harshest of environments. But new DNA analysis of both modern and ancient ...